No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.